[LIT] Running REcords

[Heather Poland]

ok, I emailed my professor to clear up what she had said before in class
about not doing Running Records with older than primary kids. Here is what
she says:

[quote]I wouldn't have any serious objections to any teacher doing running
records, if it feels useful to him/her.  However, running record
assessment was designed for beginning readers and is probably most
useful for them because they tend to engage in reading strategies much
more visibly than do older, more proficient readers.  All too often,
teachers would just be working hard to mark down lots of checkmarks on
words for running records on older students.  Don't forget that running
records are a particular kind of assessment, as well, that does not
utilize a prepared copy of the text.  Sometimes, when teachers talk
about running records they are actually doing IRI assessment instead.

I wouldn't recommend running record as a required district assessment
for students above about second grade.  They weren't designed to be used
as summative assessment in general.[/quote]

The bold is my own :)
So I think part of it is that for Running REcord, the teacher does NOT have
a copy of the text and since there are so many words, it would be really
difficult to get all the checks down. It is more helpful to have a copy of
the text and mark the miscues, and that would be miscue analysis/IRI

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- Heather

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